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The knives of jealousy are honed on details. -- Ruth Rendell
I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives. -- Billy Connolly
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. -- E. B. White
The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles. -- Steve Guttenberg
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. -- James Russell Lowell
At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns. -- Dennis Rodman
I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades. -- Bobby Flay
I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets. -- Meir Kahane
One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned. -- Tim Curry
I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria. -- Cat Cora
Knives are like credit cards; don't leave home without 'em and always carry several -- Richard Marcinko
I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz. -- Barry McGee
A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. -- Ella Leya
The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood. -- Gautama Buddha
I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives. -- Carine Roitfeld
They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. -- Jonathan Swift
I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp. -- Wolfgang Puck
I'm a ninja! I like swords and knives and stuff like that. -- Isaiah Mustafa
All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives, -- Philip Larkin
People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks. -- John Kruk
Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking. -- Eric Ripert
Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards. -- Charles Stuart Calverley
Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know? -- Joel Edgerton
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. -- James Russell Lowell
Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher! -- Masaharu Morimoto
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives. -- Robert Farrar Capon
I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys. -- Martin Yan
The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me. -- Glenn Close
These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up. -- Charles Manson
I had so many older brothers who beat up on me, so I'm a tough kid. I love mixed martial arts, weapons training, guns, knives, driving fast cars and motorcycles. -- Kellan Lutz
I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams. -- John Hodgman
I have seen purer liqors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier women courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited. -- Hinton Rowan Helper
I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look. -- Rachelle Lefevre
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties. -- George Bernard Shaw
Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother's flour cans and sugar cans with the kitchen knives, listening to the big bands on my dad's records. Gene Krupa and Harry James. -- Dick Dale
I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation. -- Anthony Bourdain
If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two. -- Marcus Aurelius
The family on my mom's side, their whole business is inventing and pitching stuff. My grandfather is in infomercials. He's a pitchman, so if you're ever watching TV late at night, you'll probably see him pitching knives. My great-grandfather also invented the plastic cheese grater. -- Ashley Tisdale
I have a terrible, terrible fear of knives. I only buy food that I don't need to cut... I haven't cut my food in years! Like, I won't even touch a plastic knife or anything sharp. And if I'm in a kitchen and somebody picks up a knife, I leave. -- Christian Serratos
In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.' -- Abraham Verghese
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Crazy gets all the knives. -- Mira Grant
Crazy gets all the knives. -- Mira Grant
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Prison is like high school with knives. -- Raegan Butcher
Swords and knives make me feel vulnerable. -- Jose Gonzalez
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs -- James Gosling
The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives. -- George Orwell
Daimonds are a girls best friend- they're sharper than knives -- Lynne Ewing
Don't know about my knives, but my gun's made of pain. -- Devon Monk
I have these knives in my chest that can't become words. -- Jenim Dibie
No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives? -- Libba Bray
Wake up, Astrid. Your psychotic criminal is playing with knives. (Sasha) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns. -- Patricia Cornwell
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives. -- Barbara Kingsolver
You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me! -- Sarah Dessen
Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks. -- L. M. Boyd
Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives. -- Veronica Roth
Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier. -- Robert Jordan
Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love. -- Charles Bukowski
Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it. -- Victor Hugo
Giant agencies are wobbling like drunkardsâ?¦ the rest of you should be sharpening your knives, -- Dan Wieden
I tell you I'm dangerous and you want to put knives near me?" - Vaughn to Faith -- Nalini Singh
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives? -- Khalil Gibran
Words are like knives... If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon. -- Gosho Aoyama
Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!' 'Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink and sparkly! -- Kiersten White
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth. -- Wally Lamb
Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too. -- Blake Morrison
Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for. -- Horace Kephart
Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That's what Bilbo Baggins hates. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Then he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with knives. -- Seanan McGuire
I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys. -- Paul Engle
Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet. -- Paul Gallico
Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it. -- Caitlin Moran
Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill. -- Ray Bradbury
I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way. -- Joe Hill
Most scars are invisible. Damn transparent knives. Does anything cut deeper than love? I need to get some new body armor. -- Jarod Kintz
I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns -- Kanye West
We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed. -- Robinson Jeffers
I had a stalker who was extremely violent. He broke into the studio with knives and I was locked in a bathroom. -- Paget Brewster
Alex probably brings his dates sharp knives as gifts, in case she'll need one when she's out on a date with him. -- Simone Elkeles
Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives. -- George Gilder
Home in Ireland, I went to Collins Barracks and spent some time wandering around, making notes on the various guns, knives and swords. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems. -- Joe Namath
The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become. -- David Coverdale
I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax. -- W. C. Fields
I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that -- Paula Hawkins
I hope that this medal inspires the kids at home to put down guns and knives and pick up a pair of trainers instead. -- Erick Barrondo
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I might look as average as the next person but I had a few secrets up my sleeves. And lots of knives of course. -- Jeaniene Frost
Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces. -- Scott Westerfeld
Leo had seen Tia Callida in action; she liked knives, snakes and putting babies in roaring fires. Yeah, definitely let's unleash her rage. Great idea. -- Rick Riordan
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And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives. -- Jeanette Winterson
Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training." Since when does "overseeing" include throwing knives at me and scolding me at every opportunity? -- Veronica Roth
I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one. -- Redd Foxx
A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'. -- Bob Dylan
Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast. -- Wes Borland
The labyrinth of Ephebe is ancient and full of one hundred and one amazing things you can do with hidden springs, razor-sharp knives, and falling rocks. -- Terry Pratchett
The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference. -- Bruno Schulz
How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion? With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest... -- Brandon Sanderson
How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?" "With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest... -- Brandon Sanderson
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If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver. -- William Cobbett
Children are knives, my mother once said. They don't mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don't we, we clasp them until the blood flows. -- Joanne Harris
As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. -- David Mamet
My A-number one visceral fear is speed. More than knives or snakes or confined spaces. Speed. I won't even go on a motor boat if I can help it. -- Sloane Crosley
After they were both done, the pile of knives and guns on the coffee table looked like they'd cleaned out an armory. "I think we have a problem, Dmitri. -- Nalini Singh
My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges. -- Sandra Cisneros
The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god). -- Terry Pratchett
Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we're throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives. -- Richard Bach
I'm really great with weapons: I did a lot of bo and staff training for 'Immortals.' I love knives. I'm a pretty good shot. But I love hand-to-hand combat. -- Kellan Lutz
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A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls. -- Gilbert Highet
You know I could go for a sandwich, but uh, I'm not gonna open two jars. I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars. And who knows how many knives! -- Brian Regan

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